Buying into Jon’s challenge as well. I’ve been slipping off the paleo bandwagon a lot lately with my birthday / labor day last week. Time to get back on track. Actually looking forward to no booze in 30 days.
I found some great resources for doing tabata exercises at home or on the road. I always work out with my laptop in my garage, so a full screen clock (swf here) works best for me. If you’re at the gym, try some of the MP3s.
http://www.beach-fitness.com/tabata/ – clock with custom intervals. Woman’s voice is way better than the default sounds
http://foundationfitness.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-tabata-cuts.html – mp3s
http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=19244 – Read every page, as members have posted custom tabata tracks. I’m digging Kanye West – Stronger
Just saw Food, Inc last night, very good movie. In terms of documentaries, its one of the best I’ve seen in a long time as was very well done. The behind the scenes look into where the majority of our country gets it’s food is just scary. Lifting the veil and seeing the true political, economical, and health effects the food industry has on our nation is shocking to say the least. If you’ve read Fast Food Nation or any Michael Pollan books, you’re already familiar with the problems associated with the food industry. Reinforcing these topics with raw video footage and interviews from farmers really drive home a lot of the points you can’t visually get from books.
Rotten Tomatoes reviews, currently at 96%
Chipotle buys free-range organic meats from Polyface Farms, interview with Joel Salatin
I couldn’t make it out to a WOD today so I decided to work on some Clean & Jerk skills. I also got a pair of Do-Win shoes a while back so I want to continue re-learning these movements with proper body geometry. Watched a couple videos from againfaster.com and Catalyst Athletics to refresh my Squat Clean / Push Jerk skills.
Skill Work, with ample rest between:
6x C&J @ 95
6x C&J @ 115
6x C&J @ 135
3x C&J @ 155 – 10 over my BW, didn’t want to push it
Things went well, getting to the bottom of the squat feels more comfortable now. Starting to use the bounce at the bottom to push up to the clean. All those little tips and tricks from Jon’s Oly Seminar are starting to click. Still need to work on keeping ATM (ass to mouth ratio) even. I’ll share some videos for critiquing soon.
I still had plenty of energy left over after this. If I ever do this again I may go back down the latter to the lighter weights focusing on form.
Teaching the Power Clean and Push Jerk from Patrick Cummings on Vimeo.
This movie looks great – basically echos a lot of points explored by authors such as Loren Cordain, Mark Sisson, Dr. Barry Sears, and Michael Pollan
Just got Mark Sisson’s (from marksdailyapple.com) new book. I dig his take on paleo and fitness so this should be a pretty good read.
Took a page out of Curtis’s book:
3 rounds not for time, resting between each
10 deadlifts @ 135 lbs
10 overhead squats @ 65 lbs
10 dead hang pullups
25 situps
how money is this shirt from Mark’s Daily Apple? I dig his take on the “primal blueprint” diet/lifestyle aka paleo diet. Been subscribing to his RSS for quite a while – great content to add to your google reader.
I’m on travel this week at an upscale hotel in San Francisco. Woke up early to hit the gym and crank out some burpees and a mini-cindy. To my amazement, all I found were overweight people riding their dumb exercise bikes reading the newspaper sipping lattes. There were a few people running on the treadmill – but at ridiculously slow paces watching the morning news. It’s so funny to watch people run the circuit of useless weight machines, cranking out 5 reps before moving on to another useless movement.
Maybe crossfit has made me judgemental of people – giving me a “better than” attitude. I’m all about people working out, it just sucks that the general populus is completely ignorant of what true fitness is, and effective methods for reaching their goals. I’m so thankful to have found a workout plan that breaks the globo-mold, and offers much more than just “exercise”.
Warm up:
walk .25, stretch, sprint .75
25 burpees
mini-cindy~ish:
AMRAP in 10 minutes:
5 pullups
10 pushups
15 squats
9 or so… stopped doing pull-ups and replaced with 25 sit-ups halfway through. The “pull-up bar”, if you can call it that, was the weird multi-handled one. People were giving me strange looks the whole time which kind of made me laugh.
